# OFFICIAL Third Debate 10/19/16 Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 19, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995 "2016-10-19T01:00:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/101 "2016-10-20T00:58:24Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Time to turn on the TV. Time to turn off the TV. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/102 "2016-10-20T00:59:10Z")
Possible drinking game: Drink when a candidate references their own policy in a way related to the question asked. I think I should pregame as I might only get one beer otherwise 😕 ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/103 "2016-10-20T00:59:14Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Beer’s poured. 🙂 Soooo thirsty…I’m stuck at work. But the debate is on the TV behind me and is VERY loud…and those fuckers with the whistles were pissing me right off. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/104 "2016-10-20T00:59:27Z")
[Part of Clinton’s prep was to bring in psychologists to find ways to needle Donald, work on trigger points and establish a psychological profile.](http://www.businessinsider.com/clinton-trump-debate-psychology-experts-2016-10) Should be an interesting 90 minutes! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/105 "2016-10-20T00:59:53Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Wallace’s choice of topics certainly seems to be meant to toss meat to Trump: > > Debt and entitlements > Immigration > The economy > The Supreme Court > “Foreign hot spots,” which I assume is about Syria but would play into Trump’s strengths if it was about places to find hookers > “Fitness To Be President” > > All are topics Trump can specifically yammer away about. Not with anything approaching truth or logic, but with his talking points. None seem exactly primed to start up Trump about Benghazi, but God knows staying on topic has never stopped him before. Yeah, all stuff that will probably be discussed only at the most superficial level and of course ignores a myriad of real issues that have gotten buried under the Studio Wrestling events these things have become. Brian Williams on MSNBC just made a snarky comment about ‘not sullying the debate with discussion of actual issues’, and I’ve got to agree. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/106 "2016-10-20T01:00:29Z")
Cannot believe that adults are having to be told to be quiet during a debate. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/107 "2016-10-20T01:01:05Z")
Wallace laying down the hammer for silence! ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/108 "2016-10-20T01:03:23Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Wallace laying down the hammer for silence! It seriously sounds like how I talk with my third graders before I explain a complicated math idea that I need them to shut up and pay attention to for two minutes. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/109 "2016-10-20T01:04:12Z")
Since I have the sound off, someone say whether Trump says “Ne\*\*-va-\*\*da” with the middle syllable rhyming with **CAT** or with **CAUGHT**. Or maybe he’ll avoid saying the word at all… Ooooo…Hillary in white! WTG. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/110 "2016-10-20T01:05:15Z")
No handshakes again. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/111 "2016-10-20T01:05:38Z")
Not even a nod to a handshake. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/112 "2016-10-20T01:06:00Z")
Podiums, huh? I thought it was a table debate. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/113 "2016-10-20T01:06:17Z")
Is Trump actually writing something? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/114 "2016-10-20T01:06:33Z")
Oh, the White Knight vs the Black Night… the monthly python one. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/115 "2016-10-20T01:06:37Z")
Good question on supreme court. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/116 "2016-10-20T01:06:50Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Podiums, huh? I thought it was a table debate. I thought so too. Perhaps she didn’t want to get a case of Orangivitus. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/117 "2016-10-20T01:07:01Z")
The Founders’ words mean what we interpret them to mean, because we _always_ interpret texts to understand them. I _hate_ that rhetorical trick, as it tries to frame the conservative position as the “correct” one because it supposedly doesn’t “interpret” the words. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/118 "2016-10-20T01:07:12Z")
Donald can’t resist screwing with the microphone. He has already adjusted it twice. Now he will blame the mic if he has audio issues. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/119 "2016-10-20T01:07:15Z")
Hilary in white - a _good_ witch. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995/120 "2016-10-20T01:07:47Z")
Mrs. Clinton wore white; good choice. She has now worn red, white and blue. Plus white is the color of the good guys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/official-third-debate-10-19-16-thread/768995.md?page=7)